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<p><strong>Airs Saturday, May 2, at 12 noon.</strong> The 2014-15 <span style="line-height: 19.0909080505371px;">Metropolitan Opera&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Verdi’s Un </span>Ballo<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> in </span>Maschera<span style="line-height: 1.5;">, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine. This is Maestro Levine's first network broadcast of this opera since 1997.Sat, 02 May 2015 17:00:00 +000059884 at http://redriverradio.orgMetropolitan Opera: Verdi’s Un Ballo in MascheraMetropolitan Opera: Massenet’s Manonhttp://redriverradio.org/post/metropolitan-opera-massenet-s-manon-0
<p><strong>Airs Saturday, March 21, at 12 noon.</strong>&nbsp;The 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of Massenet’s tragic romance Manon. It stars soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who have made their Met role debuts as the title character and her devoted lover, the Chevalier des Grieux. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the performance, also featuring Russell Braun as Manon’s cousin, Lescaut, and Nicolas Testé as the Chevalier’s father, the Comte des Grieux. &nbsp;Manon will be heard live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 21.</p><p>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:00:00 +000057951 at http://redriverradio.orgMetropolitan Opera: Massenet’s ManonMetropolitan Opera: Mozart's Die Zauberflötehttp://redriverradio.org/post/metropolitan-opera-mozarts-die-zauberfl-te
<div><strong>Airs Saturday, February 28, at 12 noon.</strong> The 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5;">Mozart’s Die </span>Zauberflöte<span style="line-height: 1.5;">, heard in a performance from October 6, 2014.Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:00:00 +000057177 at http://redriverradio.orgMetropolitan Opera: Mozart's Die ZauberflöteMetropolitan Opera: Mozart's Le Nozze di Figarohttp://redriverradio.org/post/metropolitan-opera-mozarts-le-nozze-di-figaro
<div><strong>Airs Saturday, December 20 at 12 noon.</strong> The 2014-15 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5;">broadcast of Mozart’s comic masterpiece Le </span>Nozze<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>di<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>Figaro<span style="line-height: 1.5;">. Erwin </span>Schrott<span style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">sings the title role of the resourceful valet who must outwit his master before he&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">can marry; Danielle de </span>Niese<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> is his clever </span>fiancee<span style="line-height: 1.5;">, Susanna; and </span>Mariusz<span style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;</span>Kwiecien<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> is the lecherous Count </span>Almaviva<span style="line-height: 1.5;">. The performance features two major&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">network broadcast debuts: American soprano Rachel </span>Willis-Sørensen<span style="line-height: 1.5;">, a 2010&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">winner of the Met National Council Auditions and First Prize winner at this&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">year’s </span>Operalia<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> competition, as Countess </span>Almaviva<span style="line-height: 1.5;">; and Italian mezzo-soprano&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Serena </span>Malfi<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> as the pageboy </span>Cherubino<span style="line-height: 1.5;">. </span>Edo<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> de </span>Waart<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> conducts the opera,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">presented in the new production by Richard Eyre which opened the Met season&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">in the fall. Le </span>Nozze<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>di<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> </span>Figaro<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> will be heard live over the Toll Brothers-</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 p.m. CT on&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Saturday, December 20.</span></div><p>Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:00:00 +000053879 at http://redriverradio.orgMetropolitan Opera: Mozart's Le Nozze di FigaroMetropolitan Opera:Thomas Adès’s The Tempesthttp://redriverradio.org/post/metropolitan-operathomas-ad-s-s-tempest
<p><strong>Airs Saturday, December&nbsp;29 at 12:00 noon.</strong> &nbsp;The 2012-13 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with an archival broadcast of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, which had its Met premiere earlier in the 2012-13 season in a new production by Robert Lepage. Adès conducts this performance of his English-language opera, based on the Shakespeare play and featuring a libretto by Meredith Oakes. The performance, originally broadcast live on November 10, 2012, stars baritone Simon Keenlyside as the magician Prospero; soprano Audrey Luna in the dazzling coloratura role of the air spirit Ariel; mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as Prospero’s daughter, Miranda; tenor Alek Shrader as Ferdinand, the prince who falls in love with her; and tenor Alan Oke as Caliban, the only native of Prospero’s island. &nbsp;The Tempest will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 12:00 noon CT on Saturday, December 29.&nbsp;</p><p>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:00:00 +000021319 at http://redriverradio.orgMetropolitan Opera:Thomas Adès’s The Tempest